AMHERST – Former University of Massachusetts Chancellor John V. Lombardi has returned to Western Massachusetts and is touting his new book, “How Universities Work.” Lombardi, who left the chancellor post in 2007, is back at the university as a history professor. He is also director of The Center for Measuring University Performance, which is based at the school and at...
AMHERST – Former University of Massachusetts Chancellor John V. Lombardi has returned to Western Massachusetts and is touting his new book, “How Universities Work.”
Lombardi, who left the chancellor post in 2007, is back at the university as a history professor. He is also director of The Center for Measuring University Performance, which is based at the school and at Arizona State University.
He will speak on how universities improve, the performance center, and his new book at 3 p.m. Jan. 29 in Room 2601 of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library at UMass.
Hosted by UMass Amherst Libraries, the talk is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing.
Lombardi was chancellor at UMass from 2002 to 2007 and then was president of Louisiana State University until he was terminated in 2012. The Associated Press reported that Lombardi supporters said at the time the move was orchestrated by Gov. Bobby Jindal after continued clashes between Lombardi and the administration over higher education policy.
Lombardi sought that post after a possible plan to combine the positions of Amherst chancellor and the UMass president at the Amherst campus was presented by then UMass President Jack M. Wilson.
According to a press release, Lombardi and colleagues created the performance center in 1999 as an outgrowth of a decade of improvement initiatives at the University of Florida when he was its president. The center is a joint venture between UMass Amherst and Arizona State University with collaborators and staff from the University of Florida and the University at Buffalo, according to the release.
Lombardi is an associate director of libraries and professor of history at UMass Amherst, according to the release.
According to his resume, Lombardi was appointed to the history department in 2013.